VIL

Orkney; receives a grant of Crown
property in Ireland, 524.
Villiers, Sir Edward, vi. 187.
Virgil not so "correct a poet as Homer,
v. 398. Skill with which Addison imi-
tated him, vii. 59. Idolatry of Dante
for the writings of, 88.
Virgin, Ode to the, Petrarch's, vii. 627.
Virginia, viii. 512.

Vision of Judgment, Southey's, v. 338.
Voltaire the connecting link of the literary
schools of Louis XIV. and Louis XVI.,
v. 409. Horace Walpole's opinion of
him, vi. 10. Meditated a history of the
conquest of Bengal, 450. His character
and that of his compeers, 482. His
interview with Congreve, 529. Com-
pared with Addison as a master of the
art of ridicule, vii. 90, 92. Reluctance

of the French Academy to acknowledge
his genius, 577.

Vossius, Isaac, his computations of popu-
lation, i. 221.

Voters, qualifications of, Mr. Mill's views
regarding, v. 260.

ADE, Nathaniel, i. 410.

His share

WA Monmouth's rebellion, 446, 449,

457. His flight, 514. Escapes punish-
ment, 514. A witness in the trial of
Lord Delamere, 552.

Wages, effect of attempts by government
to limit the amount of, vi. 498.
Wages of agricultural labourers, i. 324,
325. Of manufacturers, 326. Of various
artisans, 327.

Wagstaffe, Thomas, a nonjuror, iii. 169.
A nonjuring bishop, 400. His invective
on the death of Mary, iv. 119.
Wake, Dr. William, i. 259.
Wakefield, Vicar of, story of the publica-
tion of the, vii. 315.

Walcot, Captain, a Rye House conspira-
tor, i. 442 note.

Walcourt, skirmish at, iii. 147.
Waldeck, Prince of, iii. 147. Defeated at
Fleurus, 278.

Waldegrave, Lord, made First Lord of
the Treasury by George II., vi. 71. His
attempt to form an administration,

71.

WAL

Wales, Princess Dowager of, mother of
George III., vi. 217. Popular ribaldry
against her, 230.

Walker, George, at Londonderry, ii. 547.
Chosen Governor, 550. Statue of, a
Londonderry, 584. Arrives in London;
his reception, iii. 197. His detractors,
198. Thanked by the House of Com-
mons, 198. Made Bishop of Derry,
290. Killed at the battle of the Boyne,

296.

Walker, Obadiah, master of University
College, i. 588. Declares himself a
Roman Catholic, 588; vii. 283. His
printing press at Oxford, i. 606. In-
sulted by the undergraduates, ii. 97.
Impeached, iii. 203. His aspersions

on Martin Luther, vii. 283.
Walker, his tract on the authorship of
Icon Basilike, iii. 634.

Wall, an Irishman, Prime Minister of
Spain, iii. 454.

Wallenstein, vi. 386.

Waller, Edmund, i. 313. Character of
his poetry, v. 101. His conduct in the
House of Commons, vi. 112. Simi-
larity of his character to Lord Bacon's,

169.

Wallis, John, i. 321.

Wallop, counsel for Baxter, i. 383.
Walmesley, Gilbert, his kindness to
Samuel Johnson, vii. 327, 329.
Walpole, Lord, v. 520, 523.
Walpole, Sir Horace, review of Lord
Dover's edition of his Letters to Sir
Horace Mann, vi. 1. Eccentricity of
his character, 2, 3. His politics, 3. His
affectation of philosophy, 6. His un-
willingness to be considered a man of
letters, 6. His love of the French
language, 8. Character of his works,
10, 13. His sketch of Lord Carteret,
31.

Walpole, Sir Robert, his retaliation on
the Tories for their treatment of him,
v. 680. The "glory of the Whigs," vi.
17. His character, 17 et seq. The
charge against him of corrupting the
Parliament, 20. His dominant pas-
sion, 20. His conduct in regard to the
Spanish war, 22. Formidable charac-
ter of the opposition to him, 23, 43.
His last struggle, 26. Outcry for his
impeachment, 26. His conduct in re-
ference to the South Sea bubble, 40.
His conduct towards his colleagues, 42.
Found it necessary to resign, 52. Bill
of indemnity for witnesses brought
against him, 52. His maxim in elec
tion questions in the House of Com-
mons, 403. His many titles to respect,
536.
Walpolean battle, the great, vi. 16.

WAL

Walsingham, Earl of (16th century), v. 611.
Walters, Lucy, i. 196. Her rumoured
marriage with Charles II., 197.
Wanderer, Madame d'Arblay's, vii. 44.
War, the Art of, by Machiavelli, v. 75.
War of the Succession in Spain, Lord
Mahon's, review of, v. 638, 684. See
Spain.

War, languid, condemned, v. 204. Homer's
descriptions of, vii. 76, 77. Descrip-
tions of, by Silius Italiens, 77. Against
Spain, counselled by Pitt and opposed
by Bute, 223. Found by Bute to be
inevitable, 225. Its conclusion, 228.
Debate on the treaty of peace, 237.
Difference between, in large and small
communities, 76.

War, civil. See Civil War.
Warburton, Bishop, his views on the ends

of government, vi. 372. His social con-
tract a fiction, 372. His opinion as to
the religion to be taught by govern-
ment, 376.

Ward, Seth, Bishop of Salisbury, ii. 456.
Warner, a Jesuit, ii. 48.

Warning, not the only end of punish-
ment, v. 183.

Warre, Sir Francis, i. 509. Joins Wil-
liam of Orange, ii. 273.
Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of (Lord
Delamere), accused of taking part in
the Western insurrection, i. 550. Tried
in the Lord High Steward's Court, 551.
Acquitted, 553. Effect of his acquittal,
553. Rises for the Prince of Orange
in Cheshire, ii. 274. Bears William's
message from Windsor to James II.,
329, 332. Made Chancellor of the
Exchequer, 414. His quarrels with his
colleagues, 449. His jealousy of Hali-
fax, iii. 125. Retires from office;
raised to the Earldom of Warrington,
224. Pamphlet ascribed to him on the
changes in the Lords Lieutenants of
counties, 233. Protests against the re-
jection of the Place Bill, 629.
Warwick, Countess Dowager of, vii. 115.
Her marriage with Addison, 115.
Warwick, Earl of, makes mischief be-
tween Addison and Pope, vii. 113.
His dislike of the marriage between
Addison and his mother, 114.
character, 115.
Warwickshire, wages in, i. 324.
Waterford, taken by William III., iii.

318.

His

Waterloo, field of, William III.'s march
across, iv. 310. Battle of, vii. 197.
Wauchop, Scotch officer in Limerick, iii.
441, 445. Urges the Irish troops to
enter the French service, 449, 450.
Way of the World, by Congreve, its
merits, vi. 529.

WES
Waynflete, William of, his statutes for
Magdalene College, Oxford, ii. 102.
We, the editorial, its fatal influence on
rising genius, vii. 577.

Wealth, tangible and intangible, v. 342.
National and private, 344, 365. Its
diffusion in Russia and Poland as com-
pared with England, 365. Its accumu-
lation and diffusion in England and in
Continental states, 365.

Wedderburne, Alexander, his able de-
fence of Lord Clyde, vi. 449, 450.
His urgency with Clyde to furnish
Voltaire with the materials for his
meditated history of the conquest of
Bengal, 449.

Weekly Intelligencer (the), extract from,
on Hampden's death, v. 586.

Welbeck, William III.'s visit to, iv. 178.
Weldon, Sir A., his story of the meanness
of Bacon, v. 511.

Wellesley, Marquess, his eminence as a
statesman, vi. 290. His opinion as to
the expediency of reducing the numbers
of the Privy Council, 290.

Wellesley, Sir Arthur, William Pitt's re-
mark on, vii. 408.

Wellington, Arthur, Duke of, vi. 609; vii.
77. His interview with the House of
Commons, iii. 129.

"Wellingtoniad, A Prophetical Account
of a Grand National Epic Poem, to be
entitled," 64.

Welwood; his Observator, iv. 171.
Wendover, its recovery of the elective fran-
chise, v. 548.

Wentworth, Henrietta, Lady, i. 417.
Monmouth's fidelity to, 418. Her death,
489.

Wentworth. See Strafford, Earl of.
Wentworth, Thomas. See Strafford.
Wesley (John), Southey's Life of, v. 333.
His dislike to the doctrine of predesti-
nation, vi. 368.

Wesley, Samuel, i. 277.

Westerhall, the Laird of, i. 390.
Western Martyrology, i. 495 note.
West Indies, trade of Bristol with, i. 263.
Transportation of rebels to, 506.
Westminster, Election for (1690), iii. 222.
Election for (1695), iv. 180. Contest
for, in 1698; character of the consti-
tuency, 423. Montague and Vernon
returned, 423. Election for (1701),
549, 550.
Westminster Hall, vi. 571. The scene of
the trial of Hastings, 629. Compared
with the Roman Forum, v. 138.
Westminster Review, its defence of MI
reviewed, v. 272. And of the Utilitarian
theory of government, 302.
Westmoreland, election for (1701), ir.
550.

.

WES

Weston Zoyland, Feversham's head quar-
ters at, i. 470.

Westphalia, the treaty of, vi. 465, 481.
Weymouth, Thomas Thynne, Viscount,
receives Bishop Ken at Longleat, iii.
398.

Wharton, Earl of, lord lieutenant of Ire-
land, vii. 87. Appoints Addison chief
secretary, 87.

Wharton, Godwin, iv. 304.
Wharton, Henry, i, 606.

Wharton, Philip, Lord, ii. 340. His speech
against the Abjuration Bill, iii. 251.
Wharton, Thomas (afterwards Lord),
elected for Buckinghamshire, i. 373.
His opposition to James II.'s Govern-
ment, 545. Writer of "Lillibullero,"
ii. 214. Joins the Prince of Orange,
266. His early life, iv. 59. His pro-
fligacy, 60. His zeal for the Whig party,
60. His electioneering skill, 61. His
duels, 62. Attacks the corruption of
the Tory ministers, 131. Chairman of
the Committee of the two Houses, 135.
Moves the impeachment of the Duke of
Leeds, 137. Supports the Bill for Fen-
wick's attainder, 290. Made Chief
Justice in Eyre, 304. Disappointed of
the Secretaryship of State, 344. His
electioneering defeats in 1698, 424. His
duel with Viscount Cheyney, 504. Joins
in the resistance of the Peers to the
Resumption Bill, 530. Recovers his
influence in Buckinghamshire, 550.
Wharton, Duke of, his speech in defence
of Atterbury, vii. 293.

Wheeler, Mr., his appointment as Governor-
General of India, vi. 580. His conduct
in the council, 582, 586, 593.
Whig; origin of the term, i. 202.
Whigs; their efforts to pass the Exclusion

Bill, i. 196, 203, 205. Reaction against,
207. Persecution of, 207. Their plots,
210. Severe measures against, 211.
Their struggle at the election of 1685,
373. Their weakness in Parliament,
402. Whig Refugees on the Continent,
408, 410-415. Their correspondence
with England, 408. Support Monmouth,
418. Assemble at Amsterdam, 421.
Their plan of action, 423. The leaders
of the party keep aloof from Monmouth,
460. Plan of the Whig party for filling
the throne by election, 483-485. Their
temper after the Revolution, ii. 406.
Their principles in regard to oaths
of allegiance, iii. 156. Their triumph
over the High Churchmen, 156. Their
vindictive measures, 201. Their design
upon the corporations, 207. Defeated
therein, 211. Oppose the King's going
to Ireland, 218. Their violence re-
strained by William III, 219. Their

WHI

discontent, 233. Their general fidelity,
treason of a few, 235. Their tactics in

the Parliament of 1690, 246. Propose
the Abjuration Bill, 248. Their want
of liberality towards the Irish, 456 and
notes. Subsequent change in their
sentiments, 457. Support William's
foreign policy, iv. 50, 52. Their Parlia-
mentary strength and organisation, 52.
Chiefs of their party, 52-62. Their
feelings in regard to Fenwick's confes-
sion, 271. Division in their party on
the question of disbanding the army,
335. Success of their administration,
421. Unpopularity of, in 1698, 422.
Evils caused by their retention of office
after Parliamentary defeats, 451, 452.
Their unpopularity and loss of power in
1710, v. 676. Their position in Wal-
pole's time, vi. 44, 46. Doctrines and
literature they patronised during the
seventy years they were in power, 131.
Exclamations of George II. against
them, 133. Their violence in 1679, 111.
The King's revenge on them, 112. Re-
vival of their strength, 112. Their con-
duct at the Revolution, 122, 124. After
that event, 124. Mr. Courtenay's re-
mark on those of the 17th century, 247.
Attachment of literary men to them
after the Revolution, vii. 62. Their fall
on the accession of Anne, 73, 94. In the
ascendant in 1705, 80. Queen Anne's
dislike of them, 93. Their dismissal by
her, 94. Their success in the adminis-
tration of the government, 94. Dissen-
sions and reconstruction of the Whig
government in 1717, 116. Enjoyed all
the public patronage in the reign of
George I., 206. Acknowledged the
Duke of Newcastle as their leader, 208.
Their power and influence at the close
of the reign of George II., 211. Their
support of the Brunswick dynasty, 212.
Division of them into two classes, old
and young, 252. Superior character of
the young Whig school, 254. The Whigs
the party of opposition in 1780, vii. 365.
Their accession to power,366. See Tories.
Whig and Tory, inversion of the meaning
of, v. 676.

Whigs and Tories after the Revolution, v.

227. Their relative condition in 1710,
676. Their essential characteristics,
vii. 204. Their transformation in the
reign of George I., 204, 206. Analogy
presented by France, 204. Their rela
tive progress, v. 676. Subsidence of
party spirit between them, vii. 207. Re-
vival under Bute's administration of the
animosity between them, 229.

Whitby, Dr. Daniel, 1. 259.

White. See Albeville, Marquess of.

WHI

White, Bishop of Peterborough, ii. 149.
(See Bishops, the Seven.) Summoned
by James II. to a conference, 261. A
nonjuror, iii. 159. Attends Fenwick on
the scaffold, iv. 298.

Whitefriars (Alsatia), i. 284. Privileges of,

iv. 301. The privileges abolished, 302.
Whitehall, Court of, i. 285, 286. The
palace burnt down, iv. 379, 380.
Whitgift, Archbishop, i. 62.
Whitgift, master of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, his character, vi. 147. His
Calvinistic doctrines, 368. His zeal
and activity against the Puritans, 475.
Whitney, James, a highwayman; his cap-

ture and trial, iii. 594. Executed, 595.
Wickliffe, John, juncture at which he
rose, vi. 463; his influence in England,
Germany, and Bohemia, 463.
Wicklow, anarchy in, ii. 520.
Wight, Isle of, English, Dutch, and French
fleets off, iii. 274.
Wilberforce, William, vi. 625. His visit

to the Continent with William Pitt, vii.
371. Returned for York, 377.
Wildman, John; his character, i. 409.
Deceives Monmouth, 424. His cow-
ardice, 460. Joins William at the
Hague, ii. 234. His violent proposals,
237. Made Postmaster General, 418.
Wilkes, John, constancy of the populace

to, i. 491. Conduct of the Government
with respect to his election for Middle-
sex, v. 232. His comparison of the
mother of George III. to the mother of
Edward III., vii. 232. His persecution
by the Grenville administration, 241.
Description of him, 241. His North
Briton, 242. His committal to the
Tower, 242. His discharge, 242. His
Essay on Woman laid before the House
of Lords, 244. Fights a duel with one
of Lord Bute's dependants, 244. Flies
to France, 244. His works ordered to
be burnt by the hangman, and himself
expelled the House of Commons, and
outlawed, 245. Obtains damages in an
action for the seizure of his papers,
245. Returns from exile and is elected
for Middlesex, 272. Compared to Mira-
beau, 636.

Wilkie, David, recollection of him at Hol-
land House, vi. 542.
Failed in por-
trait-painting, vii. 50.
William I., Prince of Orange, i. 170. His
final interview with Philip IV., iv.

459.

William II. of Holland, i. 171.
William, Prince of Orange, afterwards

King of England; his birth; succeeds
to the government of Holland, i. 171.
His heroic resistance to the French,
172. His marriage with the Princess

WIL

Mary, 178. Population returns ob-
tained by, 222. His artillery, 239.
His reception of Monmouth in Hol-
land, 413. His advice to Monmouth,
416. His endeavours to prevent Mon-
mouth's attempt, 426, 445. Which
are obstructed by the Amsterdam
magistrates, 427. Sends back regi-
ments to James II., 445, 463. His per-
sonal appearance, ii. 1. Early life
and education, 2, 3. Theological opi-
nions, 3, 16. Military talents, 4. His
fearlessness, 5, 6. His bad health, 6.
His cold manner and strong passions,
7. His friendship for Bentinck, 8. His
letters, 8. His relations with the
Princess Mary, 10, 15. (See Burnet.)
His relations with English parties, 16.
His feelings towards England, 17. His
love for Holland, 17. His determined
hostility to France, 18. His religious
fatalism, 19. His European policy, 20.
His policy towards England, 21-23.
His conduct to Monmouth, 23. Be-
comes the head of the English opposi-
tion, 24. Rejects Mordaunt's project
of an invasion, 26. Condemns the De-
claration of Indulgence, 58. His re-
monstrance to James II., 58. His
views respecting English Papists, 59.
His correspondence with English states-
men, 78. His disputes with James,
79. Declares his opinions with regard
to the Roman Catholics, 82. Sends to
congratulate James on the birth of his
son, 163. His conversation with Ed-
ward Russell, 192. Receives invita-
tion from the conspirators, 197. Diffi-
culties of his enterprise, 199-201. His
ulterior views, 202. His representa-
tions to different powers, 219. His
military and naval preparations, 221.
Receives assurances of support, 221.
His intense anxiety, 226. Obtains the
sanction of the States General, 232.
His Declaration, 235. Takes leave of
the States General, 247. Sets sail; is
driven back by a storm, 248. His De-
claration reaches England, 248. Sets
sail again, 250. Arrives at Torbay,
253. His landing, 255. Signally
favoured by the weather, 256. Orders
a Thanksgiving, 256. His entry into
Exeter, 257. Imposing appearance of
his troops; his artillery, 259. Good
conduct of his troops, 260. Delay of
people of note in joining him, 264. His
address to his followers at Exeter, 274.
His advance, 276. Enters Salisbury.
294. Dissension amongst his followers,
295. Receives James's commissioners
at Hungerford, 298. His proposals,
301. His measures to preserve order,

319.

His embarrassment at the deten-
tion of James, 325. At Windsor, 328.
His troops occupy Whitehall, 331.
Arrives at St. James's, 332. Difficulty
of his position, 334. Assembles the
Parliamentary Chambers, 336. Orders
Barillon to leave England, 339. Re-
ceives the address of the Peers, 341.
Of the Commoners; summons a Con-
vention; his measures to preserve
order, 341. His tolerant policy, 342.
Summons a meeting of Scotchmen, 352.
His ascendancy over the mind of Mary,
359. Declares his views, 381. De-
clared King by the Convention, 389; vi.
124. Accepts the crown, iii. 390. Is
proclaimed, 391. His anxieties, 401.
Reaction of public feeling against 402,
403. His difficulties, 407. Assumes
the direction of foreign affairs, 409.
His ministers, 410-418. His speech to
Parliament, 420. His high estimation
on the Continent, 436. Personal un-
popularity in England, 437. His bad
health, 440; v. 657. His works at
Hampton Court, ii. 441, 442. Resides
at Kensington House, 443. His foreign
favourites, 444. Suffers from his pre-
decessors' maladministration, 445-446.
And from the dissensions of his mi-
nisters, 446-450. His administration
of the Foreign Office, 450-452. His
ecclesiastical policy, 456. Attempts to
compromise between the Church and
Dissenters, 482. His coronation, 490.
Proclaims war against France, 498.
His inability to send troops to Ireland,
514. Negotiates with Tyrconnel, 514.
His letter to the inhabitants of Lon-
donderry, 584. Summons a Con-
vention for Scotland, iii. 3. His vex-
ation at the outrages on the Scotch
clergy, 5. His impartiality in regard
to Church government, 11. His reply
to Scotch Episcopalians, 12. His letter
to the Scotch Convention, 13. His
instructions to his agents in Scotland,
14. Sends a force to Edinburgh, 29.
Proclaimed King in Scotland, 31. Ac-
cepts the crown of Scotland, 35. Re-
fuses to pledge himself to religious
persecution, 36. Disliked by the Co-
venanters, 37. His ministers for Scot-
land, 38. Becomes unpopular with
the Whigs, 122. Naval affairs under
him, 144. His continental policy, 145.
Negotiations with the Dutch, 146. Ap-
points the Ecclesiastical Commission,
172. His unpopularity with the clergy,
177. Refuses to touch for the king's
evil, 180. His message to Convoca-
tion, 188. Recommends the Indemnity
Bill, 202. Disgusted with his position,

216. Purposes to retire to Holland
216. Changes his intention, and re-
solves to go to Ireland, 217. Pro-
rogues Parliament, 219. His indul-
gence to nonjurors, 219. Makes changes
in his government, 223. His scruples
against employing bribery, 229. Com-
pelled to adopt it, 230. General fast
for his departure, 234. His speech to
the new Parliament, 237. His dislike
of the Abjuration Bill, 251. Submits
to Parliament the Act of Grace, 252.
Puts an end to political proscriptions,
253. Prorogues Parliament, 255. His
preparations for the war, 255. His
difficulties, 265. Appoints the Council
of Nine, 269. Sets out for Ireland, 271.
Affronts Prince George of Denmark;
sets sail from Chester, 271. Lands at
Carrickfergus, 282. At Belfast, 283.
His military arrangements, 284. His
donation to Presbyterian ministers; his
affability to his soldiers, 284. Marches
southwards, 285. His army, 285. Re-
connoitres the enemy, 291. Wounded,
292. Passes the Boyne, 296.
Ilis
conduct in the battle, 296. His entry
into Dublin, 303. His reported death,
303, 304. His lenity censured, 316.
Receives news of the battle of Beachy
Head, 317. Takes Waterford, 318.
Arrives before Limerick, 322. Loses
his artillery, 324. Assaults the town;
repulsed, 327. Raises the siege, 328.
Returns to England, 329. His recep-
tion, 329. Sends Melville to Scotland
as Lord High Commissioner, 336.
His government obtains a majority in
the Scotch Parliament, 337. Dissatis-
fied with the settlement of the Scotch
Church, 352. His letter to the General
Assembly, 353. Opens Parliament,
355. Departs for Holland, 368. His
voyage to Holland, 369. His danger;
lands, and proceeds to the Hague, 370.
His enthusiastic reception, 370, 372.
His speech to the Congress, 374. His
administration of foreign affairs, 375,
377. His relations with Roman Cath-
olic princes; obtains toleration for the
Waldenses, 377. His difficulties aris-
ing from the nature of a coalition, 378.
His attempt to relieve Mons, 380.
Returns to England, 380. His cle-
mency to Jacobite conspirators, 384.
Treason among his courtiers, 407,
408. Returns to the Continent, 415.
His indecisive campaign in Flanders,
417. Fine gentlemen in his camp,
417. Returns to England; opens Par-
liament; favourable prospects. 459.
His speech, 460. His employment of
Dutchmen, 490. Receives information